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Article: 12939 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: No more anon-ftp
Date: 6 Nov 2001 17:36:11 GMT
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In article <9s95jj$jgs$1@samba.rahul.net>, <dold@95.usenet.us.com> wrote:
: My ISP is going to stop anon-ftp access. http downloads are still allowed,
: but the anon-ftp is being dropped. Most people don't care, but there is
: one guy who posts Amiga code, and some of his users don't have browsers.
: I thought IKSD might be a fit, but perhaps it is subject to the same need
: for stringent oversight as anon-ftp.
: I sort of cruised the iksd.html, but of course, I'm looking for the quick
: answer ;-)
:
The quick answer is: go ahead and use it. We've had it up for nearly two
years without incident, and it has many advantages over FTP, listed here:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/cuiksd.html
Of course the ISP is going to have to read:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/iksd.html
and we all know how people dislike reading, as compared to clicking on
things.
And not to talk down IKSD, but there is absolutely no reason to shut down
anonymous FTP, at least not unless you shut down FTP altogether. The
only trouble with anonymous FTP is when anonymous uploads are allowed to
an area that is also accessible for anonymous downloads. It's a simple
matter to set up your FTP service to disallow that, as we have done here.
Of course when you have a write-only anonymous upload area, a system
administrator has to monitor the incoming files and know what to do with
them. Nothing comes free any more.
For non-anonymous file transfer, of course there is also the issue of
clear-text passwords flying through the network for all to see. This is
not an issue of FTP versus IKSD versus SCP, etc, but rather an issue of
whether you have installed servers that embody security methods, as IKSD
can do, and so can FTP:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftpd.html
Ditto for Telnet versus SSH.
- Frank